The Brancacci Chapel : form, function and setting : acts of an international conference, Florence, Villa I Tatti, June 6, 2003 / edited by Nicholas A. Eckstein.

Title & Author:

The Brancacci Chapel : form, function and setting : acts of an international conference, Florence, Villa I Tatti, June 6, 2003 / edited by Nicholas A. Eckstein.

Publication:

Firenze : L.S. Olschki, 2007.

Description:

viii, 237 pages, 6 color pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Villa I Tatti / The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance studies ; 22

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-232).
The Brancacci Chapel: new questions, hypotheses and interpretations / Nicholas A. Eckstein -- The Brancacci, the Chapel, and the mythic history of San Frediano / Nicholas A. Eckstein -- The significance of the "Madonna del Popolo" in the Brancacci Chapel: re-framing assumptions / Christa Gardner von Teuffel -- The Brancacci Chapel viewed in the context of Florence's culture of artistic patronage / Dale Kent -- Masaccio e Masolino: una compagnia di pittori nel contesto delle botteghe fiorentine del primo Quattrocento / Cecilia Frosinini -- The Branccaci style and the Carmine style / Carl Brandon Strehlke -- Adam and Eve in the Brancacci Chapel, or Sex and gender in the beginning / Rona Goffen -- Playing in the piazza: Peter, Paul and Santa Maria del Carmine / Nerida Newbigin -- The Carmelites of Santa Maria del Carmine and the currency of miracles / Megan Holmes -- "The Womb of Memory": Carmelite liturgy and the frescoes of the Brancacci Chapel / Peter Howard.
Two essays in Italian.

ISBN:

9788822256508
8822256506

Subject:

Cappella Brancacci (Santa Maria del Carmine (Church : Florence, Italy))
Mural painting and decoration, Italian Italy Florence Congresses.
Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance Italy Florence Congresses.
Christian art and symbolism Italy Florence Medieval, 500-1500 Congresses.
Fresque de la Renaissance Italie Florence Congrès.
Christian art and symbolism Medieval
Mural painting and decoration, Italian
Mural painting and decoration, Renaissance
Italy Florence
Brancacci chapel
Stained Glass.
Glass Painters.

Form/genre:

Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Eckstein, Nicholas A.
Villa I Tatti (Series) ; 22.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 253361
Call No.: ND2757.F5 B63 2007
Status: Available

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